​In Debra Chapoton's Young Adult novel, SHELTERED, five troubled teens find themselves living together unsupervised and are confronted with demonic forces, compelling them to deal with their problems in distinctly different ways. Paranormal meets psycho meets Goth in this story of a supernatural haunting and budding love.

High school junior, Ben, hacks into his step-father's real estate holdings and provides rooms in an old two-story house to various outcasts: the schizophrenic kid, the angry Goth girl, and the homeless girl who adores him. When Megan needs a place to live she comes to the rooming house with a different set of problems and the ability to confuse and attract Ben.

One by one strange and mysterious occurrences stretch the teens’ beliefs in the supernatural. How they deal with demons, real and imagined, has tragic as well as redeeming consequences.

Eddie Burling is a brilliant yet emotionally impaired young man whose elaborate plan to make pretty Rebecca fall for him goes terribly wrong. EDGE OF ESCAPE is a complex journey into the minds of both victim and predator. If you like fast-paced psychological thrillers then you’ll love how Debra Chapoton makes the reader feel for both the hunted and the hunter.